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[Maximum Spin]

So what's a moon's over my hammy, anyway? It sounds like a donkey and bacon sandwhich to me.

Personally, I'm imagining fried eggs on ham on toast. The eggs would be the moons, you know? The fact that the name screams "diner food" also goes into it.

[delphonso]

Now imagine barely understanding English and understanding what a "Moons-over-my-Hammy" is.

Generally you get a description of the menu item (sometimes even a picture) in the types of restaurants that serve those.

True enough - those only help so much, depending on how flowery the language is.

It's hot ham and cheese but with an egg. I have never eaten one - and probably never will. It's from IHOP or Denny's or some other American chain. I just like the pun.

Spoiler: pretty good lookin' picture (click to show/hide)

[Frumple]

... oh. It's just a ham, egg, and cheese sandwich. Well, that's boring

Usually do bacon egg and cheese myself, when I do the egg sandwich thing, but I've ate that more than once, too. Super easy to cook, decently tasty and filling. It just didn't have a name that evokes cooked ass.

[delphonso]

It just didn't have a name that evokes cooked ass.

And in that, is its weakness.

[scriver]

Nobody tell him what ham and bacon is

[TD1]

They're WAFFLES in a FOREST for onion's sake!

[Reelya]

JFC, today i found out from a video what's in no-calorie Splenda, the artificial sweetener.

It's literally just sugar (glucose). How do they get away with calling it zero calorie sweetener then? They made the serving size 4 calories, and there's a law by which if the recommended serving size of something contains less than 5 calories, you're allow to call it "no calorie". They've basically exploited a loophole to trick fat people into consuming more sugar.

So all these people are chugging down their pure sugar thinking it's diet sugar. you know, just have normal sugar then, it generally tastes nicer than the glucose and costs a lot less. Or, buy dextrose from a brewer's supply company by the kilo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splenda

So the deal is that they hype that it's made from sucralose, which doesn't metabolize the same as sugar. Which is a good thing, except, they use glucose as a "bulking agent"

Splenda usually contains 95% dextrose (D-glucose) and maltodextrin (by volume) which the body readily metabolizes, combined with a small amount of mostly indigestible sucralose.

^ So the idea that it's made from the non-digestible but sweet sucralose is in fact a scam.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

The other fig leaf is that it contains some (~5%) sucralose, which is an actual indigestible sweetener.

Not that filling up on left-hand sugars and indigestibles is the healthiest thing to do either...

edit: Is it even a ninja when Reelya's edit storm ends up consuming all the information in your own post like a packet of Splenda, the artificial sweetener?

[Reelya]

The other fig leaf is that it contains some (~5%) sucralose, which is an actual indigestible sweetener.

Not that filling up on left-hand sugars and indigestibles is the healthiest thing to do either...

Yeah I came across that info, added it in. They market Splenda based on the idea that it's made from sucralose, but that's only 5%, with 95% being dextrose/glucose and maltodextrin, which they get away with by considering that a "bulking agent" rather than the active ingredient. It's like selling a painkiller as opioid free, but only 5% of it is the active ingredient and it's cut with 95% heroin "for volume".

So the stuff is more or less entirely a scam built on deception and exploiting some loopholes in the marketing laws.

[wierd]

Well, Considering the tagline is "It tastes like sugar, because it's made from sugar",  I guess "Seriously, it's glucose" is not a misadvertisement.


It is my understanding that glucose being present may actually be better for you than 100% artificial sweetener, because of the effects artificial sweeteners have in promoting insulin resistance.

it containing actual glucose (which is more readily dealt with by the body than sucrose, HFCS, and pals) might actually be a GOOD thing.


With the added sucralose, the amount of sugars consumed is less for the same sweetening power, and the body still has actual sugars to metabolize, so the effects of insulin resistance over time should be reduced.

[Iduno]

I'd rather be the first citizen to get free shots

Ok, you're promoted to "Test Subject A".

[Loud Whispers]

Ok, you're promoted to "Test Subject A".

Fuck yeah, I'm no longer Test Subject B

Finally moving up in the world

[hector13]

Ok, you're promoted to "Test Subject A".

Fuck yeah, I'm no longer Test Subject B

Finally moving up in the world

Unfortunately they sort Test Subjects in hexadecimal.

[wierd]

Test subject 0 gets all the fun injections.

[JoshuaFH]

Man I hate being the control.